To American People, how do you feel to have a drunk as a President?

Question

Not born in a rich family this guy would have ended up as a tramp.
The half-wit is in the white house.

@susandiane311

Most alcoholics stop drinking at the age of 40, this is a proven fact. That is not reform it seems something common.

Answer 1

Don't forget Cocaine abuser and embezler. Arrested for cocaine possession in Texas in 1974, did community service and had it expunged. Defrauded investers in Arbusto oil out of over 200 million dollars.
So without a powerful family, he would not just be a tramp he would be in prison.

Answer 2

Given that we have a looooong history of drunks and at least heavy drinkers serving with distinction (and not so much), I don't know that alcoholism and bad presidential performance go hand in hand. FDR, Andrew Jackson, and U S Grant come to mind, in diminishing order of performance (as Presidents.)

Before the recent moralism in the White House and across America, ushered in by Jimmy Carter, alcohol lubricated the 'genius for compromise' that American government /used/ to be noted for. FDR, Johnson and Nixon, not to mention Tip O'Neill and many others in the other branch, used booze to build cameraderie and bridge political divides. Jimmy Carter's refusal to do the same helped undermine his administration. (Watch AMC's Mad Men, the best thing on TV right now, to see it in action.)

By current standards, the framers of the Constitution were a bunch of lushes! We have the record for the wine and beer and ale and stronger drink that the Framers billed to the Federal Government while they were framing the Constitution, and it's a wonder they could walk! (I looked for this evidence, briefly, but you'll have to trust me on this.) Perhaps if we could have gotten the instigators of the Civil War to drink with the Yankees a bit more, we might have worked out another workable compromise.

I'm more worried about abuse of prescription drugs, especially that by JFK to combat his back pain, which might have been crippling in a Cold War situation requiring clear thinking in a quick response situation.

I'm even more worried about Dubya's demonstrated lack of judgment as a cocaine user in his mid 20s to early 30s. (Is there really any doubt about this, except among dittoheads, though it hasn't been conclusively proved? We have several witnesses, mostly registered Republicans, friends from his youth, who admit this.)

I agree that Dubya would have ended up as a mediocre high school principal or low level insurance executive without his family connections, and that he's our worst President since Reconstruction, but I don't think we can blame alcoholism for this. I wonder, though, since they say that emotional development is arrested the moment a drunk starts drinking, and only resumes once he stops for good, if his lack of empathy for others might partly be laid to this cause.

PS - I'm not in denial about a personal problem. I drink fairly little and haven't been drunk in years, and have never had a problem with any drug including booze.

Answer 3

I'm not a big George Bush fan ,but your question is disingenuous. President Bush is a reformed alcoholic, He quit drinking around the age of 40.

As far as drunks, there's more evidence that Senator Ted Kennedy has alcohol related issues than Bush

You sound like you're grasping at straws here. I can respect and debate valid criticisms of President Bush or any other politician but let's start with the truth of the matter.

Answer 4

Stupid question that obviously shows how out of touch you are.

Personally, I strongly dislike this president. But to accuse him of being a "drunk" is both rude and incorrect. Yes, the man once had a problem with alcohol. It appears that he reformed himself of that problem. In the U.S., one thing that distinguishes us is that we allow people to recover from their mistakes, instead of relegating them to being "a tramp" for the rest of their lives.

The fact that Bush is not a good president has nothing whatsoever to do with what problems he may have had with alcohol in the past. Get over it.

Answer 5

Are you from England? If so I seem to remember a few years ago William Hague ran for PM claiming that he was better then Blair because he could drink up to 15 pints a day. That's all he had going for him. The Mirror ran pictures of him drinking at various social functions. Only in England could this be a positive leadership trait.

Answer 6

Opinions are like aszholes, everybody has at least one of each, and they all stink !!!
Would you rather have Chappaquiddick Ted as President?/
Uncle Wil

Answer 7

Finger pointing and name calling does nothing to help anyone.
Idiots populate both parties and we get to finance it.

Answer 8

You can't trust a man who doesn't drink. But, in the case you mentioned, you can't trust him either.

Answer 9

After reading some of your other questions..I can only assume you are a "Fidiot"

Answer 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXLFDuAJNE&NR=1